Biomedical humanities:
21st-century American perspectives on literature and culture
4th Methodologies in American Studies Workshop
October 22-23, 2018

The 2018 MAS workshop focuses on biohumanities – a cutting-edge field of inquiry that attempts to reconcile the natural and medical sciences with the humanities. The integration of theories and concepts from ecology, biology, anthropology, medical sciences, and psychology, as well as political science and philosophy, to name only a few, offers innovative approaches to the study of non/human agency, citizenship, cultural and environmental change, and economic processes. Importantly, life sciences add to our understanding of the human being and open up a critical space for rethinking and reevaluating the established approaches to the study of American culture and its global impact.

Venue: Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw

Format: 2-day workshop consisting of five 3-hour sessions,
a plenary lecture, and a summing-up session

Eligibility: The workshop is open to young scholars who are either working on their doctoral dissertations or have recently received a Ph.D., and who are affiliated with an institution of higher education in Central/Eastern Europe.
Since the number of participants is limited to 20, the organizers reserve the right to select the applications based on geographic and academic criteria.

Description: International scholars and members of the Polish Association for American Studies will offer a series of 3-hour workshop sessions on biomedical humanities as perspectives on the critical study of American literature and culture.
Participants will also have a have a chance to seek advice from the instructors on problems related to their research projects.

The workshop format requires that all participants read the assigned set of materials in advance. Reading materials for each workshop session will be made available online by 15 September 2018.

Blues in the 21st Century: Myth, Social Expression and Transculturalism

Date: November 23?24, 2018.
Institution: Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Catania, Italy
CfP deadline: June 30, 2018.
Conference website: http://bluescatania2.my-free.website/

The TSA is coming to America. For the time since it was established in 2002, the TSA is holding its annual conference on the other side of the Atlantic. TSA is a broad network of scholars who use the ‘transatlantic’ as a frame of reference for their work in political, economic, cultural, historical, environmental, literary, and IR/security studies. All transatlantic-themed paper and panel proposals from these and related disciplines are welcome.

This conference thus welcomes papers in the following areas:

History

International Relations and Security Studies

Literature, Film, and Culture

Planning and the Environment

Economics

Proposals that investigate the ‘transatlantic’ and explore it through frames of reference such as ideology, empire, race, religion, migration, political mobilisation, or social movements

Proposals that incorporate perspectives that involve north-south and south-south transatlantic connections, as well as north-north

Both panel proposals and individual papers are welcome. Panel proposals are encouraged to include a discussant. New members and junior scholars are especially welcome.

POLISH ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES
2018 Annual ConferenceChallenging America, American Challenges. Culture, Society, Politics
held and hosted by the Department of American Studies and Mass Media,
University of Łódź, Poland,
24-26 October 2018

Explorations: A Journal of Language and Literature is a peer-refereed online journal published by the Department of the English Language and the Department of English Language Literatures at Opole University, Poland (for more information and the current issue see http://www.explorations.uni.opole.pl). For the next issue of the journal, to be published in December 2018 we invite articles addressing language- and literature related topics in an original and innovative way. We welcome interdisciplinary approches ranging across lingustics, critical theory, and literary and cultural studies. Each submitted article will be peer-reviewed by academic experts selected from relevant fields of research.

Contributions are expected by June 30, 2018. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by September 30, 2018.

The TSA is coming to America. For the time since it was established in 2002, the TSA is holding its annual conference on the other side of the Atlantic. TSA is a broad network of scholars who use the ‘transatlantic’ as a frame of reference for their work in political, economic, cultural, historical, environmental, literary, and IR/security studies. All transatlantic-themed paper and panel proposals from these and related disciplines are welcome.

This conference thus welcomes papers in the following areas:

History

International Relations and Security Studies

Literature, Film, and Culture

Planning and the Environment

Economics

Proposals that investigate the ‘transatlantic’ and explore it through frames of reference such as ideology, empire, race, religion, migration, political mobilisation, or social movements

Proposals that incorporate perspectives that involve north-south and south-south transatlantic connections, as well as north-north

Both panel proposals and individual papers are welcome. Panel proposals are encouraged to include a discussant. New members and junior scholars are especially welcome.